[stand watie]

being northernBORN no more makes you a damnyankee than it makes you a plumber.

DAMNyankee is a LEARNED prejudice & hatefulness toward dixie, her people, her bloodstained battleflags, her sacred war memorials, etc. (if you want to know what a damnyankee is like, visit the "civil war" threads on FR. we have LOTS of south-HATERS, who show up there to make "cute" ANTI-dixie comments.

WELCOME to the southland.

free dixie,sw

[GrandEagle]

It is quite interesting that "they lost the war - get over it" keep reappearing. From the results of their "leadership" over the last 140 years, I'd say that we all lost (with the obvious exception of the former slaves). Constitutional rule of law ended with the termination of hostilities in 1865.

Cordually,
GE

[Gabz]

I have never understood the hatred by some of all things southern.

When I would go back to visit in NYC after I moved to Delaware (which is actually east of the M/D line)I was shocked by the attitudes of people I had known most of my life. I can only imagine what some of them would say if they knew I lived in Virginia now.

We are here by choice, the last thing on earth I'm going to do is start badmouthing a place I chose to move. Being a Yankee by birth, I much prefer the idea of raising my daughter a southerner.